Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-03-24
ANOTHER HORROR.
A Passenger Train Crashes Through
Bridge.
twenty-five Persons Killcd---Many In
Jured.

twenty-five Persons Killed---Many In
Jured.
A frightful accident occurred on tho
Deadham branch of the Boston Il Provi-
dence railroad on the morning Of the l4th
inst, on what is known "a the Bussey Park
bridge about six miles from Boston. The
five rear car, Of the train went through
the bridge, the other two passenger
coaches, baggage car and engine pa sed
over in safety. There were seven passenger
coaches in all. The last car of the train
was the smoker, and in it's IAN, a distance
Of some 30 feet, it turned completely over,
falling on the top Of the other coaches aud
crushing them out Of all semblance.
The bridge was q comparatively new
structure. The accident is attributed to
several causes, but it is now stated that it
was caused by a truck under one OF the
cars becoming detached and striking
against the abutment of the bridge. Al
most Immediately after the smoker fell
flames began to pour out OF the windows
The car had taken fire from the stove
The fire department, however, was prompt
ly at the scene, and soon extinguished the
flames.
An inspection Of the wreck reveals the
fact that the eight cars comprising the
train were jumbled into a complete wreck,
not one OF the coaches escaping almost
complete demolition. From the location
OF the wrecked cars 1t would seem that
the first three cars passed over the bridge
safely. The structure evidently gave way
when the fourth car was passing over it.
The five rear cars went through to the
roadway, landing in mass OF splinters in
the street. The strain of the flve falling
cars pulled the three coaches in advance
from the rail. They remained on top of
the embankment, but were pulled of their
trucks; the floor Of each was forced nearly
to the roof, while the seats were iumbled
together in great confusion. The end of
the second coach was a mass of SIP inters,
caused 10y the car ahead grinding against
it when the others when down the EN-
bankment. The third coach was hattened
to the ground as if it had fallen on its
trucks from a great height, although it re-
manned on the edge of the en-
bankment. The roof of the fourth re-
manned on the edge of the embankment,
having evidently been shaved clean from
its fsstenings where the coach went
through. The four next cars went down
in heap, the smoker, which was on the
rear OF the train, falling into the midst of
the coaches and being actually ground
into small splinters. The inmates OF the
smoker were all either killed or injured,
not one escaping WITHOUT INJURY or some
kind. Two of the coaches went clear
across the roadway, landing against a
stone wall that bounded large field at
the foot Of TIE hill. AS the cars lie in their
present location they present a picture OF
such absolute demolition that it seems re-
markable that any person in them escaped
alive. Cushions from the seats are seat
tered over the roadway and into the adj
jacent pasture, while car wheels an d
trucks are distributed in all directions.
In the mass Of splinters in the roadway
are pools of blood and occasionally a por-
ton of body can be seen, although such
portions of human remains as are found
are hurried away to the morgue. Still
there are pieces OF flesh to be seen, some
times fastened between timbers as il &c
tually gouged from some victim.
A gentleman who left the scene about
an hour after the accident, said that when
he left some 20 bodies had been taken out
and that two of the persons who had been
injured were removed to the city hospital
and had died after reaching there from
their injuries. Ten Others are fatally in
Jured, and death Is but a question of time.
The number Of those slightly injured 10
about 10.
The bodies of most OF the victims were
horribly mangled, In several cases being
decapitated and arms and legs strewn for
rods along the track Some of the bodies
were so frightfully mutilated that ideuti-
fcation was inn ossible only by clews
found on their persons.